Alton Nolen

Alton Nolen (16 August 1984-), also known as Jah'keem Yisrael, was an American Islamic State sympathizer who, on 24 September 2014, beheaded a 54-year-old woman at a Vaughan Foods food processing plant in Norman, Oklahoma.

Biography
Alton Alexander Nolen was born in Oklahoma on 16 August 1984, and he worked as a production line employee at Vaughan Foods in Norman, Oklahoma. He was in prison from 2010 to 2013 for assaulting a police officer, and, at some point, he left his original Baptist faith and converted to Wahhabist Islam, tattooing "Assalamu Alaikum" on his arm and posting photos of 9/11, the Taliban, and a beheading on his Facebook. He also ran into trouble at his job, having been suspended once for personnel issues. In 2014, he was inspired to carry out a terrorist attack by Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, and, on 24 September 2014, he used a 10-inch work knife to behead his 54-year-old colleague Colleen Hufford, and he also attempted to behead his other coworker Traci Johnson before he was shot and wounded by the Vaughan Foods COO, who was also an Oklahoma County reserve deputy. In October 2017, he was convicted of murder and assault, and, on 15 December 2017, he was sentenced to death by lethal injection.